RBI to announce facility for NRIs to exchange old notes
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Saturday said that it will introduce a facility for exchange of old specified…
West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused
Reserve Bank of India of not re-calibrating enough ATM outlets in the state to
dispense the new Rs.500 notes.
“Still no supply of Rs.500
from RBI. Only 500 ATMs in Bengal re-calibrated for Rs 500. Long queues
continuing, but people not getting money,” Banerjee said on Twitter.
The Trinamool Congress
supremo also said tea garden workers of the state are in a pitiable condition
as most of them could not be paid wages due to the ongoing dearth of cash.
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“Pitiable condition in
tea gardens. Of 287 tea gardens, 119 have not received wages since Oct 29 affecting
2.5 lakh tea workers,” she said.
Banerjee further accused the
RBI of not paying the due amount to the cooperative sector of the state.
“Our cooperative sector
suffers as there is a gap of Rs.1,261 crore which RBI has not yet given,”
she said.
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